Monday 4 May 2020

Online Dharma Course with Gregory Kramer



Hi all.

I want to let you know of an upcoming online dharma course being run by Gregory Kramer. 

Greg is most well known for creating the practice of Insight Dialogue (treating dialogue as meditation), however he is also a fabulous dharma teacher. He's about to release his next book about treating your whole life as the dharma path and this 10 week online course is based on that. It will look at each "fold" in the Eightfold Path and what that means in practice especially in these strange times.

I highly recommend Gregory to you. If this course is of interest, don't miss it! For more info, click here.

....and for members of Beaches Sangha, a reminder that this Thursday we are discussing Chapter 2 of Stephen Batchelor's book 'After Buddhism" (titled "Mahanama the Convert"), along with Session 3 in the corresponding workbook.

Warm regards
Lenore

Thursday 26 March 2020

Next week's meeting - virtual and spontaneously off-piste



Hi all.

With community centres all closed at the moment, we'll be having our April meeting in the cloud via Zoom.

We're also going to take a detour from our normal program (working through Stephen Batchelor's book, see What's On), and instead, discuss this article by Winton Higgins called "Dharmic Existentialist Ethics in a Time of Pandemic". 

With the weirdness of the world at the moment we thought this would be a valuable opportunity to infuse our experience and perceptions with a bit of dharma, and help us process what's going on.

This will be our first virtual meeting, and because it's a discussion rather than a talk, we will limit the number of participants. If you're not a regular member of Beaches Sangha and would like to participate, please contact Kristin on the email address at the bottom of this page to let her know, and we'll be in touch early next week.

Warm regards
Lenore


Friday 21 February 2020

Early reminder...so you can read!

Hi all.

Here's a slightly early reminder of our next session on Thursday week, 5th March. I'm posting this early to remind you that some reading is required....specifically, Chapter 1 of Batchelor's book, (also titled "After Buddhism") and Session 2 of the workbook. 

It's a great idea to read it a bit before we meet so that you can ponder on the questions at the end of the Session in the workbook.

Look forward to seeing you on Thursday week.
LL

Thursday 16 January 2020

Radical Compassion Challenge

Hi all.

It's another couple of weeks until our first meeting for the year. In the meantime I thought some of you might be interested in this free course being run by Sounds True. 

It's called the Radical Compassion Challenge and is hosted by Tara Brach who is a popular American teacher.

You can sign up here if you're interested.
LL